The force lost, in all, five officers wounded, and a hundred men killed and wounded, from the 36th.
During the course of the reconnaissance Lisle had been with the rear guard, and had fallen in the torrent with a rifle ball through his leg.

As every man was engaged in fighting, the fall was unnoticed and, as he could not recover his footing, he was washed helplessly down to the mouth of the defile.

As he managed to reach the shore, a party of Afridis rushed down upon him with drawn tulwars; but a man who was evidently their leader stopped them, as they were about to fall upon him.
Illustration: A party of Afridis rushed down upon him.
"He is an officer," he said.

"We must keep him for a hostage.

It will be better, so, than killing him." Accordingly he was carried back to a village which the troops had left that evening.